CHRIST CALLED YOU TO FREEDOM Josimar Salum

CHRIST CALLED YOU TO FREEDOM

Josimar Salum

There is nothing more harmful to a person than solidifying his beliefs. When you stop asking, you stop learning.

Dogmas are beliefs that have become petrified and defy any confrontation. Each one builds his confession of faith, his creed, and guides his life according to the traditions of his parents, his church and himself. 

It is not the Truth that counts, but whether it is accepted. The effect of literalism on human life is to lead one to deny his likeness to God and even his nature as a being that thinks, chooses, concludes and is free.

The greatest Master in the universe called his students to follow him, not to build convictions. People tend to copy others and repeat what others do without questioning, without weighing, without investigation, without examination and without their own experiences.

If you are part of a group where you hear one or more of these phrases or expressions often, take it as a sign that you are under witchcraft, you have no freedom and you are a member of a cult.

1 - “You are part of the best community you could be in.”

2 - “It is forbidden to think.”

3 - “Do not question anything. Just obey.”

4 - "Don't question, just pray."

5 - “You have to decide which side you are on.”

6 - “You have to trust me.”

7 - "I won't explain, because you don't have the maturity to understand."

8 - “When I think you are ready, I will speak openly.”

9 - “Never question an authority.”

10 - “We know what is best for you and your family.”

11 - “It is a privilege for you and your family to be with us.”

12 - "God spoke to us..."

… And he didn't speak to you.

Anyone who takes upon himself the prerogative of exclusively listening to the voice of God in order to transmit it to you, becomes a mediator between God and yourself. Drop out of this! Urgently!

Traditions are invariably practices that emerged from things that went right for a given moment and that were perpetuated through repetitions even when they no longer worked. People err much more because they maintain traditions at the expense of knowledge of the Scriptures and the power of God. They rely on practices and no longer venture to follow Jesus alone.

Jesus is no longer Jesus of Nazareth, but a religion, a faith, a belief, a prayer, a tradition.

Jesus wants us to be his friends, but we stop coming to him to follow the faith. Faith becomes our focus and not Jesus. When living life becomes a religious practice, life ceases to be natural.

Children learn all the time because they ask. Curiosity and doubt are the best tools to foster learning. Without the burning desire to move forward, monotony will become your companion.

You will always be able to improve. You can always surpass your limits. The limit is simply an imposition of fear. Limits only exists for those who establish them.

If what you do will always remain what you do, there is no more room in your life for creativity, improvement and change.

You don't follow Jesus, but your beliefs. That's why church meetings get boring, there's no more life. Life at home, at work, at play becomes a bit of your beliefs.

Development will always find a way as waters always find a way. The fountain only stops gushing if a lid suffocates it. The river will always run its course. If a dam interrupts it, the volume of its waters will break the barrier.

Make a man stop thinking and he will easily become a slave.

“It was for freedom that Christ set us free! Therefore, stand firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1

#ASONE

Translated from Brazilian Portuguese into English by: Filipe S.S. Gouvea